to the neighbours to behold; for each one has
six mighty hands to lift up, two from his sturdy shoulders, and four
below, fitting close to his terrible sides. And about the isthmus and
the plain the Doliones had their dwelling, and over them Cyzicus son of
Aeneus was king, whom Aenete the daughter of goodly Eusorus bare. But
these men the Earthborn monsters, fearful though they were, in nowise
harried, owing to the protection of Poseidon; for from him had the
Doliones first sprung. Thither Argo pressed on, driven by the winds of
Thrace, and the Fair haven received her as she sped. There they cast
away their small anchorstone by the advice of Tiphys and left it beneath
a fountain, the fountain of Artaeie; and they took another meet for
their purpose, a heavy one; but the first, according to the oracle of
the Far-Darter, the Ionians, sons of Neleus, in after days laid to be a
sacred stone, as was right, in the temple of Jasonian Athena.

(ll. 961-988) Now the Doliones and Cyzicus himself all came together to
meet them with friendliness, and when they knew of the quest and their
lineage welcomed them with hospitality, and persuaded them to row
further and to fasten their ship's hawsers at the city harbour. Here
they built an altar to Ecbasian Apollo [1106] and set it up on the
beach, and gave heed to sacrifices. And the king of his own bounty gave
them sweet wine and sheep in their need; for he had heard a report that
whenever a godlike band of heroes should come, straightway he should
meet it with gentle words and should have no thought of war. As with
Jason, the soft down was just blooming on his chin, nor yet had it been
his lot to rejoice in children, but still in his palace his wife was
untouched by the pangs of child-birth, the daughter of Percosian Merops,
fair-haired Cleite, whom lately by priceless gifts he had brought from
her father's home from the mainland opposite. But even so he left his
chamber and bridal bed and prepared a banquet among the strangers,
casting all fears from his heart. And they questioned one another in
turn. Of them would he learn the end of their voyage and the injunctions
of Pelias; while they enquired about the cities of the people round and
all the gulf of the wide Propontis; but further he could not tell
them for all their desire to learn. In the morning they climbed mighty
Dindymum that they might themselves behold the various paths of that
sea; and they brought their ship from its for